France’s carbon war is a strike against Brussels

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IT MAY not be a good solution but it is a French solution and it has a certain elegance about it. Dominique de Villepin, the French Prime Minister, has put his mind to the problem of global warming and fossil fuel emissions. His answer: declare carbon war on China and America.

Let us tax goods from countries that have not signed the Kyoto Protocol, urges Mr de Villepin. The United Nations treaty binds its signatories to cuts in greenhouse gas emissions but the leading carbon junkie, the United States, declined to play ball because the protocol does not include the